Day 20: Favorite genre.
RPGs are number one in my book. I love games that tell a story. Second is puzzle games, since I also love games that make you think, though obviously any game that tells a story should also make you think. I find puzzle games incredibly useful for playing before I have to write or edit something, because it gets my problem solving circuits all fired up. Third would be platformers, though I seem to have lost some of my skills with those over the years, probably because I haven’t played as many as I used to.
What genre holds the highest esteem for you?
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Like you, I love to lose myself in another world. One ripe with looting, exp gain and a story that would make the very gods weep in appreciation. All hail the RPG!
I hate puzzle games though. Sorry, haha!
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I think it’s the most immersive gaming experience ever…besides VR of course hehe.
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Hooray for RPGs! I’m also a fan of action-adventure games, and I do like a good puzzle game 🙂 I said fantasy for my day 20, but since that seems to be “questionable” as a genre, I figured I’d be a little safer with those three 😉
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Game genres aren’t like book genres, are they? I’m actually trying to compile a list of viable game genres for a planned post about how to define good gamplay. With games, you can have fantasy RPGs, fantasy action games, fantasy puzzle games, fantasy FPS’s. It’s almost like you need two genres to define them; it’s why I’ll usually do that in my Gamer State post.
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Yeah, it’s too confusing for my little brain to keep track of, apparently. But “fantasy” is usually a good bet for something I’d like 🙂
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I’d say action RPGs are probably my favourite, but I like playing almost everything. Anything with a good story and/or fun gameplay is all I really want 🙂
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Since I haven’t played a whole hell of a lot of games, I’m going with RPGs because the two that I love the best are WoW and Horizon.
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You really can’t go wrong with that choice especially considering the sheer number and type of RPGs out there. There’s something for everybody 😀
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I suppose I would have to go with RPGs too, though probably leaning a bit more towards the action RPG side. First person shooters/stabbers with RPG elements are also pretty high up there.
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I’m going t guess you’re a fan of Mass Effect then 🙂 It’s not first person, but it definitely gets the action part down.
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Definitely RPGs. I used to *love* 2d fighters, especially the SNK stuff like King of Fighters 98 and Samurai Shodown. I’m not sure why, but I rarely touch them anymore. I’m also a sucker for adventure and horror games, but there are so many terrible cash grabs in the latter camp.
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The last 2D fighter I was really into was Street Fighter II, and I was only marginally good at that one. I at least felt like I was doing more than just button mashing though. I played a tiny bit of the Tekken that was out at the time (don’t even bother asking me the number lol), and I liked Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Clay Fighter, and Soul Caliber 2, so…I guess I did play a bit more than just SFII, but that was definitely my favorite of the bunch. I just remember Soul Caliber having that one creepy character who never talked; he just hissed and bowed.
Horror is one of the hardest genres to pull of successfully. You have to really understand how to get under peoples’ skin and of course everything is subjective. For a scaredy-cat like me Mother Brain is Metroid is terrifying, but that doesn’t hold for most gamers, though nearly everyone will agree that Dead Space is scary as fuck.
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Haha, I think you’re referring to Voldo in Soul Calibur. Weird dude in bondage gear, thongs, and has knives on his hands?
Horror is definitely a tricky genre. I hate predictable jump-scare garbage and prefer more mind-fuck horror or games with disturbing atmosphere, like Claire, Silent Hill, The Evil Within, and Resident Evil VII.
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Yes! That dude. Such a creeper hehe. I liked using him though just because he was so weird.
I much prefer the mind fuck, cosmic horror type thing even though holy shit scary! Though sometimes you can have that and good jump scares like Dead Space was brilliant with it, and though I haven’t seen it yet, the first Alien was big on that, too AND it had the eerie atmosphere. I don’t like them to be honest, because whoohoo anxiety, and it takes me a long time to come down. I also hate anything involved with chasing. I remember watching Zelda Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass and I had to cover my eyes when the phantoms were alerted in the dungeon. You can imagine how much I *love* the Wall Masters.
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Mannnn, I think you would *love* SOMA. Definitely bump that LP to the top of your list whenever you’re free of your current watchlist.
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I just finished watching Out of This World/Heart of the Alien, so SOMA is next then #perfectiming
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Also recommend watching a Let’s Play of Year Walk. It’s a short 1-2 hour game steeped in Swedish folklore. Very fucked up stuff. If you look into it and it seems interesting, find an LP that goes for both endings and reads all of the lore bits in the in-game encyclopedia. I just finished both endings this morning and hooooly shit is that game weird in a good way. Great art style, too.
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My pick, although is a merger between 3 would be action-adventure-rpg. I find combining those 3 is a sweet spot for me.
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You must love Legend of Zelda then!
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Yup I broke down what that game is when answering 🙂 even 2/3 ain’t bad
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I so wish that I were into games so that I could post meaningful replies here. What genre is that game where the character goes around a maze chanting ‘waka-waka-waka-waka’?
I love reading the things you post, though. 🙂
Kindness – Robert.
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That’s okay! I post plenty about books and writing, too lol.
Pac-Man! Hm, I’d consider that a puzzle game 🙂
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Then Puzzle Gaming is my genre! 🙂
I picked up Saga (One) the other day – I’ve put it to one side as a special treat to myself.
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You will not regret that purchase! I just finished the 6th volume tonight. I’ve been trying to pace myself, because the 8th isn’t out until January and I have the 7th in my possession. Once I finish that, it’s a long time to wait until the next 😦
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Don’t you just hate it when that happens? I made the mistake of reading The Passage and The Twelve by Justin Cronin and then waiting a year for The City of Mirrors. Inevitably, by the time the third book was in my hands, I’d largely forgotten what went on in the first two books. It kinda spoiled the experience for me.
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I read a sample of The Passage and nearly picked it up the last time I went to the bookstore, but I have a huge pile of books sitting right by my bookshelf, and I already had around $50 worth of books in my hand. It is on my to-buy-next list, because the sample for it absolutely blew me away.
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Worth it. But read it all at once. 🙂 I have over 1000 books in the attic waiting for me to read them. I think I might just have a problem.
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Right now I have a little less than 500 in my backlog, and I probably have 50 or so in my possession between my bookshelf and my Kindle. I can never have too many books!
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I keep having this fantasy where I break my legs or something else non life threatening and so I can get paid for just staying in bed reading all day. Is that bad!
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I think for a while NASA was offering to pay people some astronomical sum of money to stay in bed for six months or something like that. It was for some sort of study. I can’t say I didn’t think about it :p
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#myidealjob 😀
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If you had asked me this 10 years ago, I’d probably answer RPGs but I’ve found that I have less and less time to devote to anything and shorter experiences have become my go to. With that said, maybe adventure games are now my go to. They generally give me the story fix and can offer a wide array of gameplay styles.
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I, too, have noticed I have way less time to devote to the games/genre I love. RPGs are as involved as a good book, and time is in short supply for me. It’s one of the conversations I’ve had with the coworker who gave me the 360. I pretty much have to schedule out my playing time. Ugh being an adult sucks.
Nothing wrong with a good adventure game! They do offer a variety of styles and you don’t have to devote as much time to them as RPGs with their need to level up.
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I’m gonna cheat and name the top 3 genres that I always pick when naming them. My top 3 are platformers, RPGs, and point-and-click adventure games. I grew up with platformers so that’s a given, and some of my favorite games are the epic RPGs. I like point-and-clicks because I love story-driven games that incorporate logic puzzles into them. It’s a niche taste, but it’s part of a genre that is slowly coming back thanks to the Telltale games series, Life is Strange, and Thimbleweed Park.
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RPGs and platformers were my gaming staples! RPGs still are, though I’ve woefully grown much less skillful with platformers hehe.
You would probably LOVE The Room series. It’s more puzzle than story driven, but there’s definitely a story there. It’s point and click in terms of point and dragging with your finger since I believe it’s only a mobile game. I just finished the first ending of the third, and I need to try to do the other endings. Totally worth the $5 or so I spent on all three 🙂
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I’ve played the original The Room and liked it a lot! Still haven’t picked up the other two, but I do love those kinds of games!
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They’re so much fun! I hope they make more.
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